Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
Booklet Accompanying the "Entartete Musik" Exhibition - Düsseldorf, 1938
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Entartete Musik - eine abrechnung von staatsrat Dr. Hans Severus Ziegler. Düsseldorf: Volkischer Verlag, [1938]. German.
Under the influence of the "Degenerate Art" exhibition (Entartete Kunst) in Munich, Dr. Hans Severus Ziegler organized an exhibition presenting the "shallowness" of black-Jewish music (mainly jazz, Jewish composers and modern avant-garde music), as compared with German music. For this exhibition, a real catalogue was not printed, only the booklet offered here, which includes the opening speech by Ziegler (Goebbels also delivered a speech), quotations of Hitler's words, photographs, caricatures and paintings as they appeared in the exhibition.
The composers presented in the exhibition included Felix Mendelssohn, Kurt Weill, Gustav Mahler, Hans Eisler and Ernst Krenek [an image from the advertisements for Krenek's famous opera "Jonny spielt auf" was used as the basis for the caricature appearing on the booklet's cover].
The impact of this exhibition was beyond expectations and it marked the climax of the dramatic change caused by the Nazis to the musical scene: Europe lost its composers, musicians, researchers and teachers who were persecuted and exiled using the excuse of scientific research; some of them were forced to cease composing and others were sent to concentration camps.
32 pp, 21 cm. Good condition. Vertical folding mark (minor). Small tears to right margins of some of the leaves (one tear is about 1.5 cm long). Some markings and inscriptions in pencil. Light stains to cover.
Under the influence of the "Degenerate Art" exhibition (Entartete Kunst) in Munich, Dr. Hans Severus Ziegler organized an exhibition presenting the "shallowness" of black-Jewish music (mainly jazz, Jewish composers and modern avant-garde music), as compared with German music. For this exhibition, a real catalogue was not printed, only the booklet offered here, which includes the opening speech by Ziegler (Goebbels also delivered a speech), quotations of Hitler's words, photographs, caricatures and paintings as they appeared in the exhibition.
The composers presented in the exhibition included Felix Mendelssohn, Kurt Weill, Gustav Mahler, Hans Eisler and Ernst Krenek [an image from the advertisements for Krenek's famous opera "Jonny spielt auf" was used as the basis for the caricature appearing on the booklet's cover].
The impact of this exhibition was beyond expectations and it marked the climax of the dramatic change caused by the Nazis to the musical scene: Europe lost its composers, musicians, researchers and teachers who were persecuted and exiled using the excuse of scientific research; some of them were forced to cease composing and others were sent to concentration camps.
32 pp, 21 cm. Good condition. Vertical folding mark (minor). Small tears to right margins of some of the leaves (one tear is about 1.5 cm long). Some markings and inscriptions in pencil. Light stains to cover.